Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) implied former President Donald Trump is sweeping the endorsements of law enforcement agencies because they disapprove of Vice President Kamala Harris.
With a little over a week left until the Nov. 5 election, Trump has the endorsements of the National Border Patrol Council, the National Association of Police Organizations, the Fraternal Order of Police, and dozens of sheriffs. Meanwhile, Harris received the endorsement from 101 individual law enforcement officials in a letter, but she has largely missed out on endorsements from entire organizations.
“That is no coincidence, and you can see why. Let’s go back to Kamala Harris, what she ran on back in the last race, when she got eviscerated in her primary. She literally ran on abolishing ICE and abolishing Border Patrol — that was one of her policies that she wanted to take place,” Mast said Sunday on Fox News’s Life, Liberty, and Levin. “Now she was not totally successful in abolishing them in her term as vice president, but she was successful in abolishing their ability to go out there and do their job. Now we see the invasion taking place in America.”
Mast went on to point to Harris’s actions during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. When some activists were arrested after violent crimes occurred during the protests that turned into riots, Harris paid their bail to release them.
“She was anti-police then. She’s anti-police now,” Mast said.
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Trump only continued to receive endorsements from law enforcement after he himself was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records earlier this summer.
Mast himself is up for reelection next week as well. This will be his first cycle to defend his seat in the House of Representatives.
